Summer Brighton Craftaganza 2013 Poster and Flyer Design!

 

Applications Now Being Accepted for Summer Brighton Craftaganza!

 

The Summer Brighton Craftaganza craft market will take place at Fabrica on Sat 15th June. If you are interested in selling at the event, email us at craftaganza@gmail.com with images of your product line.

The closing date for applications will be Friday 10th May.

What are you doing this weekend?!

Spring Brighton Craftaganza Market Poster Artwork!

 

And the B/W flyer version:

Spring Brighton Craftaganza Market: Applications are now closed!

Thank you everyone who applied to sell at the forthcoming Spring Brighton Craftaganza craft market. The period for receiving applications has now passed. However, if you are interested in selling at future events, please email me at craftaganza@gmail.com with images of your product range or a link to where I can see it online.

If you aren’t selling at our Spring event, please pop down on either of the days to say hi and see the wonderful work that will be at Fabrica to view and buy!

Spring Brighton Craftaganza 2013: Applications now being accepted

Can you believe it’s that time again?! Applications are now being accepted for our Spring contemporary craft market. If you are interested in selling at this event, please email me at craftaganza@gmail.com. Be sure to either include a link to where I can see your products online or attach some images of your work.

Be quick now, the closing date for applications is Monday 28th January!

Happy New Year! Plus This Year’s Market Dates

Happy New Year one and all!!!!! A new year is a really exciting time for designer-makers, crafty business owners and craft market organisers like myself. The handmade scene in Brighton will continue to grow from strength to strength in 2013, hopefully creating lots of fun and profit for those involved!

I’m very excited to begin 2013 by announcing that we have extended this year’s dates booked for our contemporary craft markets at Fabrica Gallery, Central Brighton. If you are interested in selling at out markets, please email us with links to where your product range can be seen online or with photos attached to the email to craftaganza@gmail.com.

 

Christmas Brighton Craftaganza 2012: In Pictures!!!

Well, our last event of 2012 is over, and my goodness it went with a bang! Both days had a great atmosphere with both sellers and visitors enjoying the festive vibes (and mulled wine).

I’m so relieved that all the Craftaganza crew’s hard work paid off in creating an event that is easily the best we’ve organised yet! Obviously the festive present buying season is always going to have better odds than any other time of the year for a great footfall and gift-hungry visitors. However, I feel the success of the event will have done a lot to create an association in lots more people’s minds between craft (and hopefully also Brighton Craftaganza) with quality, unique products that blow most of the high street’s selection out of the water!

Although a well earned rest is needed over the festive period, I’m also really excited about all the things we’ve got lined up for 2013. Anyway, one thing at a time! If you’d like to see more photos from the Christmas Brighton Craftaganza, check out our Brighton Craftaganza flickr group pool. Also, if you took any photos from the event, please please add them to the flickr group.

Handmade for Him at the Christmas Brighton Craftaganza!!!

Printed fabric ties by Get Cutie Co. and Boy Parker. On sale on Sun 9th Dec, £25 each. A wide range of fabrics to choose from.

As I previously lamented in this post, one on-going concern I have is getting sufficient products that appeal to guys on sale at the Brighton Craftaganza markets. If we are to encourage an increasing amount of the public to choose buying handmade products instead of mass-produced ones, it really doesn’t serve the crafting cause to ignore half the population!

Dinner Dinner BATMAN screen print by hello DODO. Available Sat 8th & Sun 9th Dec, £20 as a hand-printed silk screen image and £8 as a tote bag.

But with lots of careful selection, I am happy to say that there will be some fantastic products on sale at the Christmas Brighton Craftaganza that will be fantastic gifts for the dudes in your life. Locally handmade products are no longer the sole realm of women!

Steampunk cufflinks by Chanchala. Available Sat 8th & Sun 9th Dec, priced from £30-£40 made from broken vintage wristwatch movements.

Of course, it’s unlikely that a bias towards female-centric work at Craft fairs and Handmade markets is going to change in the near future, but I would argue there is definitely a sea-change happening. So please support this trend whilst helping to make your partner’s/husband’s/son’s/dad’s/friend’s/uncle’s/etc. Christmas a super special, handmade one.

Cool Mo Bro printed t-shirt by Vacant Echo. Available Sat 8th & Sun 9th Dec, these hand-printed t-shirts will be £12, plus designs also available on sweatshirts.

We have such an exciting range of products (for both genders!) available for this festive fair. I love how some of our sellers have taken traditional Christmas gifts, like ties or cuff links, but given them a modern, updated spin.

Printed leather belts by abide. Available Sat 8th Dec, priced from £35 – £45 hand made and hand printed.

Other Christmas-gift items are arguably less predictable, like an awesome screen print or fantastic illustrated T-shirt, which surpass anything you’ll find on the high street for quality and originality.

Handy bottle opener/fridge magnets by Saffron Reichenbacker. Available Sat 8th & Sun 9th, just £3, these fantastic stocking fillers feature original artwork with lots of design and colour options.

So, with the items shown in the post as just a taster of the male-friendly things that will be available, come down to Fabrica Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th December! Oh, and did I mention there’ll be sausage rolls and mulled wine?!

Betty Pin Up Tattoo badge by Kirstin Stride. Available Sat 8th & Sun 9th, only £8 for these hand drawn hotties!

 

Christmas Brighton Craftaganza 2012 Market: Poster Design!

I know the word ‘excited’ is probably over-used on this blog, but there simply isn’t another word sufficient to explain how we feel about this Christmas’s event poster design! I commissioned a very talented graphic designer to come up with this poster, and I couldn’t be happier with the result.

The brief included the desire for something more contemporary and slicker than previous year’s efforts, and less female-orientated. This is to reflect the direction Brighton Craftaganza is heading in general. I hope you all like it.